Chapter 33: Indigo

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Jesus Christ my eardrums.

"Don't remind me, I'm a year closer to death" I tell them and walk to the massive table in the restaurant.

"Why so morbid?" My dad asks and kisses my forehead as I sit down. I shrug and watch as everyone else seats themselves around the table. Amelia is here with sophie and the whole family is also in attendance. How fun.

"Can we open the presents" Oakley says and claps his hands. Sophie grabs his hand and brings it down.

"Oakley, it isn't your birthday" she says sternly. Fucking love this kid.

"Yeah Oakley" Matteo echos and sophie glares at him, he cowers in his seat and smiles sheepishly at her. She's 4.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, can I start you off with some drinks" the waiter asks and runs his eyes over me. First of all ew and second of all Thankyou.

"Water would be great" my mum says and Elliot huffs, the waiter walks off and mum leans forward and sends him a questioning stare,

"What?" She asks and leans her head on her hands.

"You always get water, I don't like the taste of water mamá" he complains and slouches in his seat.

"I'm sorry baby, would you prefer it if I asked for their milkshake surprise" she says enthusiastically and he sits sits up and nods.

"What's the surprise" Ollie asks and leans forward, he's still getting over the breakup with that bitch belle, I spoke to her I even told her that I liked her, now I want to kill her.

"Diabetes" my mum deadpans and Alessia snorts at her.

"Really mum" Elliot groans and Alessia smirks.

"She got you there els" my brother cringes at her use of the old nickname and folds his arms over his chest.

"Aww, someone's a sulky baby" Matt coos at him and pinches his cheeks. Elliot swats his hand away and smacks him round the face.

"Leave off Matteo" he grumbles and Matt sits in shock holding his cheek.

"Not at the table boys" my dad scolds and they both look away from one another.

A couple of waiters set the water down and place glasses filled with ice in front of everyone. My mum thanks them and they split up to take our orders. They progress down the table until one of them reaches grey and I.  It's the same one from earlier. He completely ignores Grey and looks at me.

"Hi I'm Arthur, what can I get for you today gorgeous" I look at grey and he raises his eyebrows at me and leans back in his seat, his muscles straining against the fabric of his shirt.

I stay quiet because no way am I ordering, I cross my arms and greys eyes move to my chest. I clear my throat at him and his eyes meet mine again. Arthur cough's slightly but I'm not backing down.

I kick grey under the table and he stands on my foot. Bitch.

"She'd like the ham and cheese croissant with bacon and a poached egg" I win he looses as usual. Thank god he didn't get me some of the fancy shit that's on this menu.

"I think I was asking the lady" Arthur sneers and grey pokes the inside of his cheek with his tongue.

"Yeah I got that when you called her gorgeous, sorry Arthur but eyes off my Fucking fiancée before I cut them out yeah?" Grey leans forward and takes the gun from his waist band, he presses it to Arthur's leg and clicks off the safety.

"Now arty, ask me what I want to eat hmm?" I smirk at how he's behaving and watch as Arthur's eyes widen and he nods.

"W-What would you like sir?" The waiter stutters and grey sighs.

"You know I feel a little self conscious considering you called my fiancée gorgeous and you say nothing of the sort to me" Arthur sweats and apologizes.

Greys enjoying this way too much. He feeds off the fear people have for him, he's intimidating and he's very self aware of that fact .

"I'll have the breakfast Omelette" he orders and tucks the gun away. Arthur scurries of after writing it down and grey looks at me.

I give him a disapproving look and he shrugs and gives me a boyish grin.

"What's up princess?" He asks when I glare at him and roll my eyes.

"Yeah princess" I jump out my skin when Soph appears next to us, she barely passes my knee, she's actually really small.

"Hey soap" I greet her and she hoists herself up onto my lap. She grabs my necklace and inspects it. She nods her little head and moves off of me and onto to grey who catches her before she falls onto her face.

She whispers something in his ear and he smiles, dimples and all. He whispers something back to her and she clambers back on to me. She leans to my ear and giggles.

"I asked bear why his names on the ring and he said because you're his" she blushes and I tap her little red nose.

"Is that so?" I ask and she nods her head, her pigtails bouncing with the movement.

Grey reaches over and plucks her from my lap.

"Snitches get stitches princess" he tells her and she frowns.

"I'll give you stitches" woah, someone's been hanging out with Oakley a little too much.

Grey gasps and tickles her, she giggles and jumps off his lap heading back over to Oakley and Amelia. I turn around and smile at ame.

"Hey babe, how you been?" She asks and turns her attention to me.

"Good good, being kidnapped and shit, the usual" I reply and she laughs.

"Yeah I heard about that, you're ok though now?" She says and I nod at her, I feel a hand on my thigh but I look at grey he's busy talking to Enzo and his dad.

"How are you and my disgusting brother?" I question her and she rolls her eyes.

"3  and a half months, I'd say it's good" she replies just as our food arrives. Arthur puts down grey and i's food as grey rests his hand on the gun in his waistband. Arthur hurries off and we all start eating.

Halfway through I'm full so I stop.

"You already full sweetheart?" Grey asks and I nod sipping my water. Grey sticks his fork into my bacon and puts some in his mouth. He nods at his omelette and it does look really good so I nod. He switches his plate with mine and I finish off the omelette while grey eats the rest of my bacon and croissant.

I talk with Amelia some more and when we're all finished the waiters come and take our plates away, Arthur's gone.

"Why did you get bacon and croissant grey, you hate both those things?" His mum asks and I look at him and frown. Typical.

He shrugs and rests his hand back in my thigh, everyone talks some more until we get the bill and my dad pays quickly.

"Presents at our house?" My mum says and we all get up and head outside into separate cars, I get on the back of greys bike which we arrived on and he zooms off.

I love this feeling, grey does a wheelie and laughs when I grip onto his torso and hit his back.

"Asshole!" I shout over the wind and he does another.

He's going to fucking kill us, I haven't opened my presents yet.

We arrive back at my house at about the same time as the others. We all pile into the living room and there's a massive heap of presents on the floor.

"You guys didn't have to get me so much!" They did

We sit down and I unwrap all my gifts they range from a beautiful necklace from my father to a box of condoms and a mug with his face on it from Oakley.

I unwrap the last one and it's a diamond collar, it's from grey, I can tell from the shitty wrapping. I look at the gold tag and it says to blue from grey  in a small inscription in the middle, I turn it around and it reads pepper in the same script. I furrow my brows and look for grey but I can't see him.

I hear the front door open and grey walks in holding something fluffy, I squeal and get up from the couch as everyone stares.

"A cat...you got a cat!" I yell and he squints his eyes.

"Kind of" he says and places the ball of fluff into my waiting arms, it turns to look at me and I see the face of a fucking adorable stripy tiger.

I squish it's tiny little face and it opens it's brown eyes.

"Pepper, it's called pepper" grey tells me, the collar makes sense now.

"You got her a tiger?" My mum asks and her Alessia squeal, their worse than 14 year old girls.

"Why is no one acknowledging how scary this is" hunter comments and everyone hushes him.

"Where do I keep her?" I ask looking at grey.

"I've had an enclosure built for her at the back of the house" he says and I kiss his cheek.

"Best. Gift. Ever!" I shout and walk over to the collar so I can put it on her.

She nuzzles into my hold and I stoke her fur, such an adorable baby.

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